Problem with Zabbix use

[Stephanizoly]

Hello,

I have to create a network and manage a switch which discuss with other equipment but I don't know how the soft works...

In one hand, I just want to create some events, graphs and maps...
I think I can read the MIB of my computer for creating graphs...

After creating one host with a templates, i don't know what to do... it's a pity

What's the difference between items, triggers, actions?

All the tutorials I read don't explain the approach for creating a "project"... Can you help me?

Thanks...

Stéphanie

[Calimero]

item is a single metric collected and stored by zabbix:
- internal check (ping, tcp check) that returns a numeric status code (0, 1, 2 ...)
- SNMP checks that collect numeric/character values from remote devices
- agent checks (built-in or UserParameter)

That's just data zabbix will collect. Like cacti for example.

Next step is to define triggers. A trigger is a logical expression that will evaluate one or more items, applying functions (fetch last value, calculate average over the last X seconds ...) and in the end will evaluate to "TRUE/ON/OK" or "FALSE/OFF/PROBLEM". Triggers have a severity level: 10% free disk space may be just a warning while 5% and below may be considered a critical status.

Triggers going ON or OFF will create events (Edit: events and not items...): problem / recovery. Triggers will be shown on the dashboard and overview. Latest events will be listed on the dashboard an can also be review per host or group.

Next big step is to create one or more Actions. An action will be fired by triggers. You can set filters to react only the specific triggers (only for some hosts, hostgroups or on the other hand exclude specific groups/hosts, filter by severity, etc...). An action has one or more operations.
An operation is either a notification (send message to group or user) or a remote command (run /etc/init.d/whatever restart ...).

Over here we use only three actions:
- all hosts, except group Test/staging, send notifications to user group "web admins"
- all hosts, except group Test/staging, severity high and above, send notifications to a single user (generic user with SMS enabled ...)
- all network hosts/devices, except test/staging, severity high and above, send notifications to a single user (generic user with SMS enabled ==> phone from the network engineers).

[Kai-Kai]

And I don't know which documentation you used, but, the best one is the official documentation I think.
It's very complete, and very usefull, to understand what can be done, how the different items, triggers work... it also contains some examples.

http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/ZABB...ual%20v1.6.pdf

[MrKen]

Another useful resource is the Zabbix wiki.

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/doku.php

[Stephanizoly]

thanks for all yours replies, i have made my "program", it works.